Finding aid
The whole archive in one list: releases, works, people, projects, press with originals, documents, listening copies, scores, photos, literature, chronology and quotations. Search, filter, open, bookmark, cite and export.
account required Items with this sign can only be opened with a personal account. Their details are open to everyone. Request an account
Filters active
Active filters
| Collection | Entry | Year | Identifier | Open and work with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quotation | „“Halley Comet” is the most telling piece of this cosmic quartet.“Jazz Hot (French jazz magazine founded in 1935), no. 432, July/August 1986, p. 15; translated from the French | 1986 | ||
| Quotation | „A trio record with Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland is in preparation.“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 7 April 1987; translated from the German | 1987 | ||
| Quotation | „AirMail with Austria’s foremost guitarist Harry Pepl“APA JAZZ NEWS (Austria Presse Agentur) · Announcement of the Wiesen jazz festival, APA-Basisdienst, Tuesday, 2 June 1987 | 1987 | ||
| Quotation | „There was praise, too, from a prominent colleague, the guitarist John Abercrombie.“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 16 June 1987; translated from the German | 1987 | ||
| Quotation | „A treat for jazz lovers“Chris Tomark, Kronen Zeitung · Concert review, Kronen Zeitung, 4 April 1988, p. 24, quoted in Heckel 2024, p. 93 (chapter “Cracked Mirrors”) | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „accepted Harry Pepl’s guitar synthesiser as an imaginative enrichment of the sound“Stuttgarter Zeitung, 15 December 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Austrian jazz has finally become international. Guitarist Harry Pepl received the German Record Critics’ Award for “Cracked Mirrors” …“Austria Presse Agentur · APA review of the year, APA-Basisdienst, Monday, 19 December 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Austrian jazz’s guitar great, of a standing that helps to set the tone not only in Europe“Daily newspaper (title not preserved), April 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „created, as it were, out of nothing“Harry Pepl · Harry Pepl quoted by the APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 14 June 1988; translated from the German | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „European jazz? The trio of Herbert Joos, Harry Pepl and Tony Oxley provided an example of it.“Eßlinger Zeitung (Saturday/Sunday edition), 17 December 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Gems of contemporary jazz, wittily crafted by a top-class trio“Daily newspaper (title not preserved), 22 April 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Great success for the guitarist Harry Pepl, a lot of attention for Austrian jazz.“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 30 August 1988; translated from the German | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl brings electronics into play in an astonishing way.“Daily newspaper (title not preserved), April 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl’s guitar adds greatly to the moody mix“Edward Strickland · Edward Strickland, Fanfare, Volume 12, No. 1, 1988, p. 373 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry PEPL’s natural and attractive playing on his MIDI guitar creates constant “aha” moments and marks him out as one of the most …“Press review (collage, compilation not identified), 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Having grown up with the accordion, he does not deny our own musical tradition and lets it flow into his music.“Heimo Steps · „Vitaler Klangmaler“, Die Steirische, 08.09.1988, S. 12 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „He is one of my favourites“John Scofield (zitiert von Heimo Steps) · “Vitaler Klangmaler”, Die Steirische, 8 September 1988, p. 12; Steps writes “Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield told me” | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „He's great, he's like a machine gun“John Abercrombie · Reported in Kleine Zeitung, 10 January 1988, p. 18 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „His musical paintings are a pleasure to listen to, not least because sensuality and warmth are inherent in them.“Heimo Steps, Die Steirische · “Vitaler Klangmaler”, Die Steirische, 8 September 1988, p. 12 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „His new album “Cracked Mirrors”, recorded with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen, has caught the attention of international critics.“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 14 June 1988; translated from the German | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „I couldn’t care less that it’s called jazz.“Harry Pepl · Interview in Wochenpresse no. 49, 9 December 1988, p. 55 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „in a piece like “Schikaneders Delight” there was also quite definitely a Mozartean cheerfulness at play.“Stuttgarter Zeitung, 15 December 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „In this way Pepl managed to play a dazzling drum solo on the guitar.“Eßlinger Zeitung (Saturday/Sunday edition), 17 December 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „internationally sought-after master of improvisation“Kleine Zeitung (Bildunterschrift) · Report “Feldzug mit der Gitarre”, Kleine Zeitung, 10 January 1988, p. 18, caption | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „Just as a ray of light is refracted many times in the splinters of broken mirrors, musical genres appear on this record in repeatedly …“ECM Records (Pressetext) · Press text for “Cracked Mirrors”, 1988, quoted in Heckel 2024, p. 91 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „PEPL, Harry/Herbert JOSS/Jón CHRISTENSEN CRACKED MIRRORS ECM/New Note ECM 1356/8334722"CD"“Music Week (British music trade magazine), 27 August 1988, p. 34 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „The Austrian musician Harry Pepl is a man in demand internationally.“Wolfgang Kralicek, Wochenpresse · “Saitensprünge”, Wochenpresse no. 49, 9 December 1988, p. 54 (subtitle) | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „The great stylistic diversity and his unmistakably idiosyncratic playing, not to mention his perfect command of the instrument, make even …“Heimo Steps · „Vitaler Klangmaler“, Die Steirische, 08.09.1988, S. 12 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „The guitar professor in Graz is regarded internationally as one of the best in his field.“Otmar Klammer, Kleine Zeitung · Report “Feldzug mit der Gitarre”, Kleine Zeitung, 10 January 1988, p. 18 (standfirst) | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „The jazz guitarist Harry Pepl proves to be a master of sound painting with his new album “Cracked Mirrors”“Press review (collage, compilation not identified), 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „The three offered breathtaking string artistry, virtuosically realised visions of wilful electronic mobilisation“Daily newspaper (title not preserved), 22 April 1988 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „They were all thrilled. A sensation, really.“Harry Pepl · On Montreux 1981; interview in Wochenpresse no. 49, 9 December 1988, p. 55 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „This album certainly runs completely against the wind of the zeitgeist.“ECM Records, Munich (press release), May 1988, p. 2 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „three musicians meet who are able to improvise with a great deal of sensuality and warmth even in advanced playing techniques.“ECM Records, Munich (press release), May 1988, p. 1 | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „“Cracked Mirrors” is the name of the LP featuring the three jazz musicians in truly outstanding form.“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 8 March 1988; translated from the German | 1988 | ||
| Quotation | „A feature in the Ö1 Jazzstudio on 21 January is devoted to the Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl.“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 17 January 1989; translated from the German | 1989 | ||
| Quotation | „A paradoxical fusion of areas that are in themselves separate…“Harry Pepl · On Instant Composing; manuscript “Instant Composing. Info-Text für Veranstalter”, 1989, quoted in Heckel 2024, p. 61 | 1989 | ||
| Quotation | „Guitar: Harry Pepl, Hernstein“OTS (original text service of the APA), press release of the State of Lower Austria, 30 August 1989; translated from the German | 1989 | ||
| Quotation | „one of the most innovative guitarists across the whole of Europe“Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, programme booklet Brahms-Saal (cycle “Freude an Musik”, 3rd concert), 16 March 1989, PDF page 6 (review quoted in the booklet) | 1989 | ||
| Quotation | „a most radical use of technology: to play on a midi guitar connected to a computer just to return to a natural, acoustic sound“Harry Lachner · Liner notes to “Schönberg Improvations”, Amadeo 1990, on Pepl's method of playing a Bösendorfer grand piano from the MIDI guitar | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „Although it is played on the guitar, there is hardly any difference from the acoustic sound of a piano.“APA news service (Austria Presse Agentur), APA JAZZ NEWS section, 30 January 1990; translated from the German | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „And yet, it is not a sampled sound, it's a Bösendorfer grand piano - played on the guitar.“Harry Lachner · Liner notes to “Schönberg Improvations”, Amadeo 1990, on the sound of the album | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl has gone a long and imperturbable way.“Harry Lachner · Liner notes to “Schönberg Improvations”, Amadeo 1990, opening sentence | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „free process of composition, in which the work is already fixed in writing at the very moment in which it is invented“Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, programme booklet Brahms-Saal (Extraordinary Society Concert), 27 February 1990, PDF page 8 | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „Harry Pepl is a man like Albert Einstein, a genius whom probably only a handful of people can still follow in his work.“Richie Österreicher jr. · Tschin Bumm (music magazine, Technik section, p. 52), February 1990, p. 52 | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „If you're a great instrumentalist, you want to be able to express anything of the instrument, even beyond the instrument. It's not an …“Dave Liebman · Quoted by Harry Lachner in the liner notes to “Schönberg Improvations”, Amadeo 1990; Liebman plays soprano saxophone on the album | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „musical quantum leap“Tschinnbumm (Musikmagazin) · On “Schönberg Improvations”, Tschinnbumm, February 1990, p. 52 ff., quoted in Heckel 2024, p. 119 | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „The latest LP by the guitarist, acclaimed worldwide, is: a piano record.“Tschin Bumm (music magazine, Technik section, p. 52), February 1990, p. 52 | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „the lyricism of "Alone Is A Golden Stone", the trance like 4/4 groove of "Magnet Resonance" are organically embedded into a context of …“Harry Lachner · Liner notes to “Schönberg Improvations”, Amadeo 1990, on the variety of styles on the album | 1990 | ||
| Quotation | „The simulation is complete, the circle is fullfilled and we should not be puzzled by the technical method but by the musical result.“Harry Lachner · Liner notes to “Schönberg Improvations”, Amadeo 1990 | 1990 |
Citing: every row has its suggested citation and the exports for Zotero, EndNote and Citavi (RIS), BibTeX, CSL-JSON, CSV and Excel. Guidance is under How to cite.